Archive for the 'food' Category
Stop HR 759
Just say no to HR 759. call Congress and tell your rep to vote NO.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again:
he way I see it, plain old normal food has sustained humanity for millions of years, and I’m just not into injecting jellyfish genes or what-have-you into my tomatoes for a redder, shionier, [...]
Busy Day, Light Blogging
And perhaps no blogging. I kinda need to refresh my brain.
In other news, by day’s end my fourth raised bed will finally be done. Also, on Sunday, I dug and amended the back bed and planted a couple of arugulas. In the process, I nearly killed a sunflower seedling (last year’s flowers dropped a [...]
GMOs, Indian Suicides, and Bob Casey
I’ve been light on the blogging this weekend, spending most of my time in the garden, amending soil with compost, manure, and peat moss. We do everything the old-fashioned way: no chemical fertilizers, just plain old dirt and water.
Christina gets all her seeds from Seed Savers Exchange, which I highly recommend. We’re not [...]
For playmissyforme@…
Compost is available at the Fairmount Park Recycling Center weekdays and Saturdays.
The hours kind of suck:
Monday-Friday 7:30AM-3PM
Saturday Hours:
April 4 – November 28
8AM-Noon
Ignore the language about rates; as the first sentence says “City residents are permitted to obtain compost, mulch, wood chips and manure for residential use at no cost. ” Also, this isn’t the “biosolids” [...]
Speaking of Taking a Dump…
HR 875 and HR 759 are major pieces of shit.
Read More..>>Spring has Sprung
… and with it my back has begun to ache. yesterday we began, a bit belatedly, to start working and amending the soil in the raised beds. Yesterday, I spaded in a thick layer of peat, dehydrated manure (man, did THAT stink), and perlite. Tomorrow and Wednesday, I get up super-early to [...]
Read More..>>Trip to Montreal, Part 1
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I really haven’t written very much about the adventure I had getting Sam into the US for Christmas.
Dad and I left for Montreal around 6:30 PM on December 23rd, and got on the road about a half hour later due to a stop for gas and a visit to [...]
While Millions Starve, Philadelphia Wallows in Gluttony
This normally isn’t the kind of thing I pay attention to but given the global calamity, the already disgusting Wing Bowl is even more nauseating than usual.
Media coverage has grown to the point where every one of the major Philadelphia television stations has covered the event. The ABC, CBS and Fox affiliates all aired live [...]
Produce Humor
There’s not mushroom for this kind of humor here at Brendan Calling, and if I’d know this was where this pear of Keane’s was going, ida red something else. I don’t carrot all for food jokes, but lettuce all back up a little and not get all hot under the collard.
Avocado go to work [...]
Bees: Closer to Home
The disappearance of the bees hits New Jersey
Jean-Claude Tassot felt the sunshine spilling over his shoulders. It was unseasonably warm for January — a good day, he decided, to check his honeybees. So Tassot jumped in his truck and rumbled over the back roads of Morris County to the first of the eight farms where [...]
